AE754A - Turbulent Combustion

Introduction, Governing equations, Statistical description of turbulence, Turbulent scales and correlations, Reynolds averaged equations, Mixing, Flows with premixed and non premixed reactants, Numerical and experimental methods for reacting flows. Introduction Motivation and objective Governing equations. Turbulence Introduction Turbulent scales Spatial and temporal correlations Reynolds averaged equations Wall bounded shear flows Free shear flows Statistical description. Turbulence modeling and Mixing Introduction Turbulence modeling Molecular mixing Turbulent mixing Reaction diffusion systems. Flows with premixed and non premixed reactants Introduction to premixed and non premixed mixtures Moment methods Well stirred reactor Conserved scale methods. Numerical and experimental methods for Reacting flows Combustion CFD Numerical solvers for stiff differential equations General concepts about experimental methods Measurement techniques.